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University of Adelaide
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About: University of Adelaide is a education organization based out in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 27251 authors who have published 79167 publications receiving 2671128 citations. The organization is also known as: The University of Adelaide & Adelaide University.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Pregnancy, Health care, Mental health
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TL;DR: It is concluded that lifestyle modification can assist couples to conceive spontaneously or optimize their chances of conception with ART treatment.
Abstract: This evidence-based review focuses on the impact of potentially modifiable, non-communicable lifestyle factors on reproductive performance in the general population and the infertile population undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment. The impact of several lifestyle factors including; age, weight, smoking, diet, exercise, psychological stress, caffeineconsumption,alcohol consumptionandexposure toenvironmental pollutants areincluded in the review. The databases of Medline, PubMed and Cinahl were searched to identify relevant publications. There is strong evidence that age, weight and smoking impact on general health and adversely on reproductive performance. However there is a need for further research focusing specifically on the relationship between diet and various levels of exercise on reproductive performance. There are several other factors such as psychological stress, caffeine consumption, alcohol consumption and exposure to environmental pollutants that have been implicated but the evidence is equivocal. It is concluded that lifestyle modification can assist couples to conceive spontaneously or optimize their chances of conception with ART treatment.
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TL;DR: The findings of this study indicate that ACOAs are an attractive alternative to GAs for the optimal design of water distribution systems, as they outperformed GA for the two case studies considered both in terms of computational efficiency and their ability to find near global optimal solutions.
Abstract: During the last decade, evolutionary methods such as genetic algorithms have been used extensively for the optimal design and operation of water distribution systems. More recently, ant colony optimization algorithms (ACOAs), which are evolutionary methods based on the foraging behavior of ants, have been successfully applied to a number of benchmark combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, a formulation is developed which enables ACOAs to be used for the optimal design of water distribution systems. This formulation is applied to two benchmark water distribution system optimization problems and the results are compared with those obtained using genetic algorithms (GAs). The findings of this study indicate that ACOAs are an attractive alternative to GAs for the optimal design of water distribution systems, as they outperformed GAs for the two case studies considered both in terms of computational efficiency and their ability to find near global optimal solutions.
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TL;DR: Genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans is presented, finding limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and excludes migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions.
Abstract: From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.
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TL;DR: An Fe-N-decorated hybrid material of carbon nanotubes grown in situ from porous carbon microblocks is designed and constructed, giving this low-priced material an outstanding catalytic performance for ORR closely comparable with Pt/C of the same quantity.
Abstract: An Fe-N-decorated hybrid material of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown in situ from porous carbon microblocks is designed and constructed. This material successfully combines the desirable merits for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), such as highly active Fe-N species, good conductivity, large pore size, and sufficient surface area. These structural advantages give this low-priced material an outstanding catalytic performance for ORR closely comparable with Pt/C of the same quantity.
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University of Bordeaux1, Australian National University2, Institut de recherche pour le développement3, International Food Policy Research Institute4, Food and Agriculture Organization5, Colorado State University6, University of Adelaide7, Tsinghua University8, University of Oxford9, University of Idaho10
TL;DR: It is shown that to mitigate global water scarcity, increases in IE must be accompanied by robust water accounting and measurements, a cap on extractions, an assessment of uncertainties, the valuation of trade-offs, and a better understanding of the incentives and behavior of irrigators.
Abstract: S.A.W. was supported by the Australian Research Council project FT140100773; C.R. was supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land, and Ecosystems; and F.M. was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) AMETHYST project (ANR-12 TMED-0006-01).
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Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Nicholas G. Martin | 192 | 1770 | 161952 |
David W. Johnson | 160 | 2714 | 140778 |
Nicholas J. Talley | 158 | 1571 | 90197 |
Mark E. Cooper | 158 | 1463 | 124887 |
Xiang Zhang | 154 | 1733 | 117576 |
John E. Morley | 154 | 1377 | 97021 |
Howard I. Scher | 151 | 944 | 101737 |
Christopher M. Dobson | 150 | 1008 | 105475 |
A. Artamonov | 150 | 1858 | 119791 |
Timothy P. Hughes | 145 | 831 | 91357 |
Christopher Hill | 144 | 1562 | 128098 |
Shi-Zhang Qiao | 142 | 523 | 80888 |
Paul Jackson | 141 | 1372 | 93464 |
H. A. Neal | 141 | 1903 | 115480 |